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I i COUNCIL COVERAGE COUNCIL COVERAGE Pope Flooded By Messages While Showing General Improvement In Illness VATICAN CITY, (NC) - His Holiness Pope John XXIII, showing general improvement from the illness which forced him to bed, has received a flood of messages from all parts of the world wishing him a speedy recovery. The Pope was suffering from gastric troubles that caused anemia. The illness was first made public November 27, when his audiences were canceled. But by four days later, his physicians indicated that sur gery was not planned. A Vatican statement (Dec. 1) said; “ Authoritative Vatican sour ces confirm that no surgical intervention is in prospect. The Pope’s health is generally improved. In fact, it is improved to the extent that he was able to follow the work of the ecumeni cal council today.” Archbishop Pericle Felici, secretary general of the coun cil, announced to the council Fathers at the 31st general congregation, (Dec. 1) that the Pontiff’s health was much im proved. The council’s press communique said that the par ticipants applauded the announ cement. A Vatican spokesman in turn said that the Pope “was particularly moved” by this expression of devotion. He saw the applause as he watched the council proceedings on the special TV set that has been installed in recent days in his apartment. This receiver is linked by a closed circuit to a stationary unmanned camera in the council chamber. First Catholic Lay Observer PARIS (NC) -- For the first time, a Catholic layman has been invited to be an obser ver at the general meetings of the Second Vatican Council. His Holiness Pope John XXIII personally invited JeanGuitton, a member of the French Acad emy whom the Pope knew when he was Apostolic Internuncio in Paris after World War II, to be An indicator of the general optimism about the Pope’s health was the expectation ex pressed in the official Latin no tification (Dec. 1) of the cere monies scheduled for Decem ber 8 and 9, the council closing and a canonization at St. Pe ter’ s Basilica, that they would be held in the presence of the Pope. An earlier bulletin (Nov. 30) stated that the treatment the Pope had received had enabled him to walk around and to work on various problems dealing with the government of the Church. In making its first announce ment about the Pope’s health, the Vatican City daily, L’Osservatore Romano, point ed to the signs of improving and said that there was hope that the Pontiff would soon be able to resume his work sche dule. This was the text of the pa per’s announcement (Nov. 29): “As our newspaper has regu larly reported, the Holy Father for the past several weeks has been granting special and con tinued audiences to the numer ous prelates of individual nations who have come to Rome to take part in the Second Vati can Ecumenical Council. "It is easy to realize—also ‘rom remarks made by His Holiness in his recent speeches --the profound joy that has come to him from these meetings which, it can be said, summar ize in a happy synthesis by a spirit of ardent fervor and of laudable intentions of unity and an observer at the council. Guitton joins one of his fel low professors at the University of Paris in the tribune reserved for observers — Oscar Cull- mam a protestant. He also joins a fellow member of the French Academy at the council, Eugene Cardinal Tiss- erant, Dean of the Sacred Col lege of Cardinals. 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Many Bishops, here for the Council sessions, joined the throngs in St. Peter’s Square when it was announ ced the Pontiff would give his usual Sunday blessing. “Since last Tuesday, on the advice of doctors, it has become necessary to interrupt the course of these audiences be cause of the accentuated sym ptoms of gastric troubles for which the Holy Father had been undergoing for some time ap propriate medical and dietic treatment, and which caused rather strong anemia. “Everything leads to hope that as a result of treatment arranged and underway, the August Pontiff may very soon resume these welcome aud iences. As is obvious, all his children scattered all over the world are not content with sim ple good wishes, even though expressed with ardent devotion to the Common Father, but they add to this the commitment of particular prayers that any slowing down of the fullness of the apostolic ministry of the Vicar of Jesus Christ may soon disappear.” GREETS OLDEST U.S. COUNCIL FATHER — At an audience for U.S. Bishops, Arch bishop Martin J. O’Connor, (left) rector of the North American College, Rome, presents Archbishop Edward D. Howard of Portland, Ore-j* to His Holiness Pope John XXIII. Archbishop Howard is the oldest U.S. Bishop taking part in the Council. Others shown are Bishop Allen J. Babcock of Grand Rapids, Mich, (center), and Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis (partially hidden behing Pontiff) at right. COUNCIL FATHERS TAKE UP UNITY QUESTION VATICAN CITY, (NC) — Par ticipants in the Second Vatican Council voiced their over whelming approval of the sub stance of a formal statement on mass media of communications and at the same time learned that His Holiness Pope John XXIII has decided to postpone the opening of the council’s sec ond session until next Septem ber. The two’developments came (Nov. 27) at' the 28th general meeting of the council when the guest for Christian unity occu pied much of the discussion. The postponement was an nounced to the council Fathers by Archbishop Pericle Felici, secretary general of the coun cil. The regular daily commun ique said that the prelate told the gathering in St. Peter’s that Pope John “in response to wish es of many council Fathers, es pecially those living a great distance from Rome, and also taking into account reasons of a pastoral character, has fixed the date for beginning of the second session of the council as September 8, 1963, instead of May 12.” September 8 is the feast of the Birthday of the Bles sed Virgin Mary. Following this announcement, a motion was put to the coun cil by the council presidency concerning the draft text on communications media. The motion was put to a vote and approved. There were 2,160 council Fathers present and voting and thus under the two- thirds rule a total of 1,440 votes were required for ap proval. The vote was 2,138 in favor, 15 against, and 7 invalid votes. Following the voting, Arch bishop Felici read a statement in behalf of the council’s Com mission for the Oriental Chur ches. Its purpose was to clear up possible objections which might be brought up in connec tion with the subject taken up for consideration the previous day, the Catholic Church's desire for restoring unity with the separated Eastern Church es. First of all, according to the council communique, it was noted that the draft text’s title, “De Unitate Ecclesiae: Ut Om- nes Unun Sint,’’ could easily be changed. Objections had been raised to the effect that this title (On Church Unity: That All May Be One) did not make it clear that the document un der discussion concerned only separated Eastern Christians and did not include Pro testants. The bulletin reported that the statement read by the secretary general also said “in the first part of the project there is the intention merely to illustrate the conditions which have arisen as a result of the separation of the Oriental Christians and that it is not intended to make theological declarations for a constitution of the Church. In the second part, it said, there is the intention of outlining those teachings from which one might draw the means proposed for union, without wishing in the least to treat those matters which pertain to the constitu tion ‘De Ecclesia.’ Again referring to theOmnes Unun Sint” treatise, the bulletin said that the statement by Archbishop Felici noted that it “is addressed to all sons of the Catholic Church that they may use suitable means indica ted in it for promoting and achieving union with the sepa rated brothers of the East.” Among the points made were that instead of one subject un der consideration there were actually three. The first was the one under debate — “De Unitate Ecclesiae: Ut Omnes Unun Sint.” The second was a treatise drawn up by the Sec retariat for Promoting Chris tian Unity under the title of “De Ecumenismo.” The third was a chapter drafted in the same subject by the council’s theological commission. 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The bulletin said that “some of the Fathers noted that the theological and doctrinal pre mises of the project are for mulated in a rather harsh and peremptory manner without an ecumenical spirit and that it might indispose the separated Oriental brothers to whom it is addressed. It was suggested that there should be meetings between members of the Catholic hier archy and representatives of non-Catholic Christian com munities, and also that there is a need for “greater caution” in the use of terms “which might offend the sensibilities of the Orientals.” Some speakers said there was a need to distinguish clearly between what separates Cath olics from Eastern Christians and what separates Catholics and Protestants. “The elements which unite the Catholic Church with the separated Oriental churches are in fact greater than those which divide them,” it was stated. 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